1st Edition
Social Anthropology A Psycho-Analytic Study in Anthropology and a History of Australian Totemism
By Géza Róheim
Copyright 1925
488 Pages
by
Routledge
488 Pages
by
Routledge
488 Pages
by
Routledge
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Numerous have been the attempts to unveil what Andrew Lang called the Secret of the Totem, a question upon which Sir J. G. Frazer once said he had changed his views repeatedly and was prepared to change them with every new piece of evidence.
Dr Róheim, a young Hungarian anthropologist, whose work had already attracted the attention of English authorities, surveys totemism in the light of... Read more
Introduction. By M. D. Edler Author’s preface 1. The Proto-totemic complex in South-East Australia 2. Sex-totems 3. The negative totemism of the South-Eastern tribes 4. The Alcheringa myth 5. Conceptional totemism 6. Intichiuma ceremonies 7. History and development of Australian Totemism
Biography
Géza Róheim was a Hungarian psychoanalyst and anthropologist. Considered by some as the most important anthropologist-psychoanalyst, he is often credited with founding the field of psychoanalytic anthropology; was the first psychoanalytically trained anthropologist to do field research; and later developed a general cultural theory.
